uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern...... more

Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dante’s literary genius to a broad American audience. "Opening the book we stand...... more

In 1867, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first American edition of The Inferno, Dante was almost unknown...... more

illustrations by the nineteenth-century artist Gustave Dore and includes its own slipcase. A truly beautiful and highly collectible...... more